The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 152
19. The representations of this curious pastime are taken fromdifferent manuscripts; one in the Royal Library,^ and the otherm the Bodleian Library at Oxford, dated 1344.^ » Survey of Cornwall, 1602, p. 7o. ^ iTnzac » PoJux, lib, ix. can. 7. * 2 a. vii. 5 ^464, boa. 264. CK»AP. II. OF THE PEOPLE OF… … This seems to bear more analogy to wrestling than to anyOther sport, for which reason I have given it a place in the pre-sent chapter. XVI.—SWIMMING. Swimming is an exercise of great antiquity; and, no doubt,familiar to the inhabitants of this country, at all times. Theheroes of the middle ages are…
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